Word: boarded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Every time the Federal Government goes into a commercial business, 531 Senators and Congressmen become the actual board of directors of that business. Every time a state government goes into business, one or two hundred state senators and legislators become the actual directors of that business. Even if they were supermen and if there were no politics in the United States, no body of such numbers could competently direct commercial activities; for that requires initiative, instant decision and action...
...built new land with sandsuckers and made a new outer-driveway to the south as well as a made-land drive skirting Lincoln Park on the lakeside and a riverside boulevard (Wacker Drive) around scow-ridden reaches of the Chicago River. And last week New York City's Board of Estimate finally approved plans for a driveway, which will ameliorate land values as well as living standards, up the western shore of Manhattan Island from Canal Street to 59th Street. A linking boulevard from 59th Street to 72nd Street, where Riverside Drive begins, had already been approved. Construction...
...Princeton, N. J., a lively row was on last week. President John Grier Hibben of the University appealed to the county election board; Dean Christian Gauss called on eminent judges; students posted irate placards-all because a local election board had decided that no Princeton University undergraduate was eligible to vote in Princeton except the few whose non-college homes are there...
What complicated things and heightened undergraduate anger was the decision of another local registration board that students at the Princeton Graduate College and the Princeton Theological Seminary* could vote in Princeton...
...registrars stood firm. Only a modicum of relief in special cases was expected from the County election board...